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  Butchered pronunciation

  by road to nowhere in

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  since it is my turn (wife) to have the assembly streamed they start with the music.. i have never in 70 years heard it called a "pree-lood".

  twice, morning and afternoon..

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  GrreatTeacher

  I'm always impressed when people manage to mispronounce "pronunciation" as "proNOUNCiation.'
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  OMG Gretta von funberg is trying to sing

  by mickbobcat in

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  this stupid little autistic twit is a no talent hack.

  she can not dance, sing or even talk well.

  the liberal idiots follow this little idiot like she is the oracle of delphi.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Not sure, Dio, but in the US kids leave high school with the accumulated grades from all the classes for their entire high school career. There's no big final exam like GCSEs at the end of high school. Each class you've taken for four years has a final exam and those go on your high school transcript. Depending on the school set up of daily number of classes, students can leave with 28 or so credits/grades for classes. Some high schools have 6 classes a day, some have 7, and some complete their classes in half a year with 4 classes in Fall and 4 classes in Spring for a total of 8 subjects per year. As long as you pass each of those classes, you get the high school diploma.

  It's interesting, the different secondary education systems around the world.
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  OMG Gretta von funberg is trying to sing

  by mickbobcat in

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  this stupid little autistic twit is a no talent hack.

  she can not dance, sing or even talk well.

  the liberal idiots follow this little idiot like she is the oracle of delphi.

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  GrreatTeacher

  And yet, Mick, she managed to get under your skin from halfway around the world.

  Nice trick there.
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  You're DISFELLOWSHIPPED, Please---DON'T CONTACT US, Until You Return to Jehovah's Organization!

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just heard this story from one of my relatives.

  i'm leaving a lot of things out.. a jw couple had three kids and raised them in the religion.

  the oldest one got disfellowshipped at 18 years of age because he committed fornication with a jw girl.

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  GrreatTeacher

  I'm not really sure that half truths are much better than lies.

  Half truths have the disadvantage of making it look like you're hiding something.
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  This is my favorite quote! What’s your favorite?

  by Iamallcool in

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  no one can steal your thunder when you are the fucking storm!

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  GrreatTeacher

  It is better to say nothing and have people think you're stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
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  In 1923 - I almost died!

  by Terry in

  1. jw
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  in 1923 i almost died.

  __________in 1923 i almost died.. allow me to explain .... on the day of my parole from seagoville federal correctional institution, i walked out of the entrance of the prison and my grandfather was waiting for me at the gate.. the last time i’d seen him was in 1967. today was 1969.. he looked older and i must have looked much skinnier.. i opened the door and climbed into the front passenger side.. there were no seat belts back then.. jack avery hybarger was a private man, very shy about looking into anyone’s eyes.. he bottled up his emotions.

  we weren’t a family that hugs or says “i love you.”.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Loved it. Absolutely loved it. One of your best!
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  The looney left is at it again

  by mickbobcat in

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  so we all know california is one shit hole idiot state.

  now gov.

  asshat has banned gas lawn mowers and leaf blowers.

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  GrreatTeacher

  It is a valid question to ask how the electricity is produced that charges electric vehicles / small engines.

  How is your locality doing it?

  My electric supplier has greatly reduced oil and no longer uses coal. We still have nuclear power which helps, but the greatest growing category is renewables.

  We saw a boom and bust of windmills. Now it's solar farms where fields are planted with solar panels. This is a way for some families to keep the family farm as corporate farming had taken over and economies of scale make single farmers uncompetitive.

  We also have offshore wind farming approved but not yet constructed in Maryland.

  The biggest issue with all of these is of course storage. Batteries are still very inefficient.

  You can put solar panels on your roof, but battery storage isn't efficient. You can sell it back to the grid, but you only get paid when the sun is out, and you must pull from the grid during nighttime or bad weather.

  Thankfully Maryland has not been one of the states to prevent resale back to the grid.

  My hope is that battery storage becomes more efficient because I would rather store the electricity I make than deal with metering.
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  John DeLorean BACK TO the FUTURE Backer

  by Terry in

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  my john delorean story.

  in the summer of '74, i moved my family to southern california.

  i was trying to escape fromjehovah's witnesses and low-paying jobs.

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  GrreatTeacher

  The only time I remember seeing a Delorean in real life was in a bank drive thru. The guy pulled up then had a hell of a time trying to figure out how to open the door to get to the teller's drawer.

  Didn't stick around to watch the bumbling fun.
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  Where to flee Covid mandates and restrictions?

  by Kosonen in

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  at the moment there does not seem to be any place to flee to from covid mandates and restrictions.

  we are stuck like the first century christians in jerusalem.

  but jesus said when the disgusting thing would stand in the holy place, it was time to swiftly flee to the mountains.. will jehovah god open a path to security where we can be in safety?

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  GrreatTeacher

  So true, Simon, so true.
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  Kingdom Halls for sale everywhere!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it just seems like the kingdom halls are for sale everywhere.

  i think this is the fourth or fifth i have seen just this week.. https://www.domain.com.au/64-charles-street-triabunna-tas-7190-2017131021?fbclid=iwar3w-1kwb_ef5op_o3wl92bhy6_9pdlib9lj78fb5cys3gdtdhtxp_5b7j4https://www.realcommercial.com.au/sold/property-46-leslie-st-stawell-vic-3380-503750618?fbclid=iwar0m9arji78p_wakgn_2p3bkbgqoiwzore-d2-oyqx7ahhtj98wxm0lhfk0https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-wa-bridgetown-136605110?fbclid=iwar3qqn-y5zcxigotrh_mwtx0vumn2jl600uqnv0cuubehqqk2bz5nscmdnqhttps://www.athertonfn.com.au/property?property_id=679163&fbclid=iwar1bfbbae0rnhsltadwrgp-7lhfjysznlhjkq3appsubdzsk7mklgikhejkwe will give kim credit for finding these.atlantis!

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  GrreatTeacher

  It would be nice to keep this thread going with updates on sales and sales prices.

  It probably wouldn't be too hard to figure out initial price paid for land, estimate donated labor costs and come up with a profit figure for the org.

  Continually updating this thread would keep it on the first pages and make it easy for questioners and lurkers to find.